Rating: 
Summary: Best book to get you through the BIG 3-0!
Review: After feeling a bit anxious about turning 30 at age 28.7, I finally decided to do something about it because I KNEW i can't be the only person on the planet who was anxious beyond belief :) This book is soooooo much help. It offers a good laugh, some serious notes, and even refers to things (like TV shows) that we all can relate to from the 70's!!! READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!
Rating: 
Summary: Laugh Your Way to 30!
Review: Although I never felt any qualms about turning 30, I know many women who did. This book is a wonderful way to help them make it through this milestone. Laughter, after all, is the best medicine.
Rating:
Summary: Funny and wonderful, a must read!
Review: Although I'm only 21, and probably one of her younger readers, I felt not necessarily 30, but all that comes along with it, coming on. I found her writing wonderful and witty, but not insubstantial in its insights and suggestions. I loved how Julie Tilsner was able to give the topic credence without taking it all--herself, the issue, her readers--too seriously. I highly recommend this book to readers of all ages, and am passing it on to my other 21 year old girlfriends, and definitely keeping it on hand--in 9 years I'll need it for real.
Rating: 
Summary: Only for the Cosmo crowd
Review: Having recently endured the traumatic 3-0, I was looking forward to this book, which I expected to cheer me up by reminding me of all the plusses to my advanced age. On the contrary: this book actually increased my depression, listing a multitude of drawbacks to being thirty that had not even occurred to me. Instead of offering real consolation, Tilsner makes empty promises about the benefits of being thirty, assuring us that we will magically wake up with new self-confidence and direction for our lives. I only wish it were so. Probably most off-putting is her assumption that her readers spent their twenties wallowing in recreational sex and recreational drugs; her description of the average 'chick' seems to come straight from the pages of Cosmo and has little relation to my life, or that of anyone I know. If you actually do buy products from the Good Vibrations catalog and count that Saturday night wasted when you don't get high and bag a stud muffin, this book may be for you. It wasn't for me.
Rating:
Summary: a breakdown of what it's like
Review: I am 28, and my sister is a year older than me. I started reading this on the way to meet a friend for lunch on her 30th birthday, so I got to see the content of the book play out in real life. Tilsner analyzes why is it that a woman turning 30 is so monumental for what looks like a largely arbitrary age. People don't freak out the same way when they turn 20 or, indeed, 40. But face it, as I once heard on Oprah, you don't want to be poor and old in this country, and while 30 isn't old, it seems like the age by when you should have gotten it together so you don't end up poor and old! This is written in a fun style, making it pleasant to read. I appreciate how she says on your 30th birthday, you wake up feeling like you won the lottery because YOU NEVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT YOUR 30TH BRTHDAY AGAIN! My friend completely agrees. As she told me "I'm over it now!" (and I don't mean "over the hill".)
Rating:
Summary: A funny & helpful handbook for preparing to greet the big 30
Review: I bought this book because I thought it would be kind of amusing. In fact, it was extremely funny and more helpful than I thought it would be. I'll be 30 in seven months and I have been feeling bad about it, and feeling bad that I feel bad. But Tilsner has a lot of first-rate advice and experiences from other women that make sense. It really was just like sitting down with some girlfriends and talking about it all. I'm still a bit skeptical (how am I supposed to start getting respected in my career after 30 when I still don't have a career?) but I do feel better and more able to cope. I'm passing my copy around to all my 29-year friends this year.
Rating:
Summary: A laugh out loud Saturday to make you feel better!
Review: I bought this book on a whim three weeks before the big three-oh. I had been feeling a bit crummy but this book made my life seem like it was following the expected path. Her observations will make any "chick" laugh out loud - just straight talk from your best, most honest girlfriend. Not at all technical, and not at all uppity. On my 30th birthday I felt just fine, with the exception of sore muscles from laughing so much. I have already passed this book on to an about-to-pass-30-pal, and I am sure that we will all be looking for the about to turn 40 book in a couple of years. Do someone (or yourself) a favor and get this book!
Rating: 
Summary: Fun, but not all 29 and counting chicks are single!
Review: I enjoyed the fun tone of the book overall, but was a little surprised that Tilsner seems to think none of her readers are married and turning 30. I'm hitting the big 3-0 this year, and have been married for two years and have a baby (her Planet Parenthood book is fantastic, by the way!), so I felt almost left out at times. Overall, though, the book is a lot of fun--I'm passing it along to all my girlfriends!
Rating:
Summary: Light-weight life saver - perfect bath reading
Review: I gave this to my major fox babe, SaraJ, for *her* 30th along with the Fruit Bats' "Mouthfuls" CD. Thanks to Amazon's amazing 'Search Inside the Book' ability, I was able to confirm 29's total suitability and silliness as a gift from sexy Sara's 'Jerk Official Reserve Date' (JORD), which is my discreet rôle when her Davy's not around or when he's committed some adorable gaffe that calls for exile and a strategic pout. Title apart, which got me a biff round the ear for dubbing Sara a 'chick' (voluptuous vixens are *never* chicks: they spring fully formed from the womb as major babes), the book is humorous enough to read snippets from aloud after the second bottle of Dom Perignon. Or, à deux, over a jug of Bloody Mary in a cosy Badedas-drenched bath. It also helps if, as does Sara, the recipient looks a sprightly 25, behaves half that age, and has a star-struck chappie in tow oblivious to *how* many candles sputter on the gâteau. Most of the embittered crones *I* help across the big three-oh threshold have had all humor squeezed from them by constant dumpings or the screams of toy boys as they flee the haggard spectacle. For such crypt-keepers, Ms Tilsner's ace volume will only tip them sooner into the pit of has-been misery and despair. A splendid oeuvre that I must stock up on, not just for future 30th birthday babes but as the perfect goading gift for mummified creatures already past it.
Rating:
Summary: Knock em dead right on!
Review: I loved the author's wit. Even though I am post 30 (not by much), I could relate to most every topic. I highly recommend this book. There are far too many serious books out there covering these issues (aging). When does the next book come out?
|
